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...Defense Secretary. Manpower Expert Burgess worked out the Army's new Ready Reserve Program, headed the committee that wrote the post-Korean prisoner-of-war code. A hard-but smooth-working executive with a knack for grasping complicated ideas and reducing them to a two-sentence précis, Burgess won a reputation as one of the best administrators in Government. As administrator of the nation's fourth largest airline, Burgess will earn an estimated $100,000 (including bonuses, stock participation, etc.) v. his present $19,000 a year...
Last week, before the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, General Electric Co. Vice President Fran cis K. McCune said: "The gravest problem now facing the atomic energy business is that of liability for the consequences of an atomic incident. It is the business of private enterprise to take risks. It is, however, quite another thing to say that you will embark on a course which might affect the stability of your company or its very existence...
...Capitol Hill, the dramatic Eisenhower proposal was received with mixed feelings. A few hours before the President advanced the plan in Geneva, Assistant Secretary of State Thruston B. Morton trotted up to the Capitol with the President's précis of the proposal to brief the Senate's leaders. At the end of his message, the President asked for support in the form of "comment." At first, Republican leaders were silent. Then 19 G.O.P...
Kismet (Alfred Drake, Doretta Morrow and other members of the original cast; Columbia LP). A musical précis of the current Broadway idea of an Arabian night, featuring such popular songs as Baubles, Bangles and Beads, Stranger in Paradise and a couple of deft patter numbers. The music was culled from the work of Alexander Borodin, the 19th century Russian composer, by Robert Wright and George Forrest...
FRENCH Commander Colonel Raoul Lehagre heard that three Communist battalions had joined near the Catholic village of An Hiep, in the upper end of the Cis Bassac wedge. To attack them, he sent 1) a battalion of the Foreign Legion; 2) two battalions of Vietnamese and Annamite units; 3) two batteries of 25-pounders; 4) a squadron of the small amphibious vehicles called "Weasels." A tiny navy of LCMs and LCVPs (small landing craft) under Ensign Pierre Le-corche was ordered to hold the Mekong River line...